For his first design for 2010 Terry took up the challenge of painting a scene on the new shape vase (SH5 - approx. 80 mm x 80 mm). This is an unusual shapefor china and one which requires considerable skill from Mark to make - he only does or or two at a time!

It provides a surprisingly large, almost spherical surface, which presents significant design challenges for the artist. Such a highly curved surface creates a good area on which to paint but also problems of perspective, as the surface can be viewed from so many different angles.

After a few false starts, and quite a bit of rubbing out, Terry created a wonderful and very clever scene. He wanted to portray a group of Badgers on a woodland edge, while at the same time capturing those first moments as they emerge from the set and cautiously "survey the scene" to see if the ground is clear for a night's feeding. The scene being surveyed here, as the light fades, is reminiscent of Terry's favourite places in the Cotswolds.

As you rotate the vase we see one Badger, emerging through a hole in a fence, checking out the view to the left, a middle one looking towards the viewer, while a third cautiously pokes its head from beneath the roots of a tree and scans the scene to the right, all from the "edge of the wood".